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Correlations Between Positive or Negative Utterances and Basic Acoustic Features of Voice: a Preliminary Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-29)
The major aim of this paper is to establish possible correlations between continuous sentiment scores and four basic acoustic characteristics of voice. In order to achieve this objective, the text of “A Christmas Carol” ...
Use of L2 Pronunciation Techniques in and Outside Classes: Students’ Preferences
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-29)
The present study describes the level of effectiveness of both traditional and computer-assisted second language pronunciation techniques from the students’ perspectives. By traditional techniques we mean those activities ...
More Harm than Good: Why Dictionaries Using Orthographic Transcription Instead of the IPA Should Be Handled with Care
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-29)
The aim of the present paper is to shed more light on using L1 (Polish) orthographic spelling to represent the pronunciation of English words in English-Polish dictionaries (e.g. journey /dżerni/, ship /szyp/) and discuss ...
Microsoft Reading Progress as Capt Tool
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-29)
The paper explores the accuracy of feedback provided to non-native learners of English by a pronunciation module included in Microsoft Reading Progress. We compared pronunciation assessment offered by Reading Progress ...
Student-Teacher Conferences in an English Pronunciation Course: Goals, Characteristics and Views
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-29)
Student-teacher conferences are considered an effective pedagogical tool for individualized writing instruction. Yet, little is known about the goals, characteristics and perceptions of student-teacher conferences for ...
Englishville: a Multi-Sensorial Tool for Prosody
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-29)
Research has shown that prosody plays an important role in the intelligibility, comprehensibility and accentedness of non-native discourse (Munro and Derwing, 1995, 1998). Yet prosody is deemed difficult to teach (Setter ...